BLOG: Mole in Vegas: Where meeting rooms overlook topless bathers
Travelmole's intrepid reporter Linsey McNeill reports from Las Vegas, where right now it's all parties by the pool and hip DJ sets.
Encore Beach Club and its twin, Wynn Las Vegas, are the most expensive hotels on the Las Vegas Strip but right now, when it's 41 degrees, you could probably pick up a room for about $150 per night, which is incredibly good value.
All 2,700 rooms in the Wynn have recently been refurbished and even the smallest is large by most hotel standards. The hotel has also recently added a new Lakeside restaurant and a less formal tapas-style eatery, La Cave.
Somewhat groggy after the 11-hour flight out from the UK, I thought our guide said “topless” not “tapas” but I wouldn't have been surprised. This is Vegas after all and one of the hotel’s many pools does allow topless sunbathing. In fact, a few of its meeting rooms have been specially designed to overlook the area.
If that sounds tacky, it's not meant to. The hotel is actually uber-stylish and it's clear there has been no expense spared in its design.
Its casino boasts hand-blown red glass chandeliers from Murano while a wooden chandelier in one of the public areas once adorned the living room of Gustave Eiffel. There are Picassos on the walls, sculptures salvaged from French flea markets and there are elaborate arrangements of fresh flowers everywhere.
Hell, the hotel even has it's own marine biologist to check on the quality of the seafood. It's just that this is Vegas and in Vegas, anything goes.
Linsey McNeill flew with Virgin Atlantic Airways, which has daily flights to Las Vegas from Gatwick and a new twice weekly service from Manchester. She is staying at Aria Resort & Casino.
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